Example sentences of "have be [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 2 | This may well have been of benefit to individuals , but school board members were very conscious of their role as representatives of parents and the local community . |
| 3 | It would have been at home in Bournemouth or Scarborough or any one of a dozen British seaside resorts , Christina thought . |
| 4 | Monica 's number one ranking would have been at stake at Wimbledon . |
| 5 | If they acquired these infections from HIV negative partners , those partners will have been at risk of HIV infection . |
| 6 | Jes said , I thought you 'd have been off rest of week . |
| 7 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 8 | I might have been in bed with measles when I went to school , but nothing else . ’ |
| 9 | She must have been in love with Ven even then without knowing it . |
| 10 | ‘ The doctor must have been in league with Nigel , ’ Jacqui insisted truculently . |
| 11 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 12 | Theodore 's reconciliation with Wilfrid took place in the context of Caedwalla 's dramatic ascendancy in southern England and if it is true that he expressed the wish that Wilfrid succeed him at Canterbury ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) this may have been in recognition of Caedwalla 's new regime with which Wilfrid was associated . |
| 13 | This may have been in connection with duties at his Gloucester Docks warehouse or possibly in the Stroud area . |
| 14 | In his statement of claim the plaintiff admitted that since termination of the contract he had by reason of continuing to work within the insurance industry acted in such a way that , if the contract were still subsisting , he would have been in breach of clause 9A . |
| 15 | Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood . |